When it comes to making money betting, the battle-lines are very clearly drawn. It’s a do or die battle between punter and bookmaker. If we lose money, the bookie makes it and vice versa – we only triumph when they fail. These battle lines can sometimes get blurred, what with the myriad of bookie PR [...]

One of the first websites we turn to each day is the ‘Portfolio Investor’, which details the ongoing progress of one man’s real-life quest to make money betting through tipsters. Run by SBC member, Rowan, his entertaining blog openly shares on the tipsters he follows, the profits being made and just how he juggles his [...]

According to renowned author Malcolm Gladwell, to become truly good at something takes at least 10,000 hours of honest endeavour and continued practice. Be it the Beatles playing every night for 8 hours in Hamburg before they made it big, or in our cases, an expert who spends his life poring over betting markets, there [...]

If Carlsberg did tipsters, then it’s fair to say they may well do so in the guise of Laurence Lambourn, who many of you may be more familiar as the brains behind top tipster service Equine Investments. Since April 2004, Laurence has been a constant scourge of the bookmaker, taking in excess of 2450 pts [...]

Hugh Taylor is a name that strikes fear into many a horse racing odds compiler and he is without doubt one of the most renowned names in the tipping world. His betting record via At The Races is second to none and his tips quite literally can turn betting markets upside down within minutes. When [...]

Goran Trpevski is the creator of Goran’s Live Bets, one of the few tipster services that takes advantage of in play football betting, where he has a superb track record of making money. Here, in an exclusive interview extract, he gives us the low down on his approach to betting live and in play and [...]

The wit and wisdom of a bookmaking legend with more than 40 years experience ‘on both sides of the counter’. Malcolm Boyle is a legend in the bookmaking world. A former odds compiler at Coral in the 1980s, he worked with the renowned Joe Fagan before branching out to run his own bookmaking chain in [...]